Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1911 — Page 3

— L Boys Black Buck* ’ skin Shoes at 98c ; ■ t We’ve got a few more pairs of these good wearing shoes, solid leather soles and insoles, J just the thing for fall wear, j! Sizes run from 3s to 5s at , i > t 98c this week. (: I ■' '■■■—■ ' — ■ ■■ I - i Charlie V oglewede The Shoe Seller I

Leather forecasts *c •o*o*o*o ♦ ©♦©♦©♦©♦©♦o*©* Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. - . 1 Mr». Thomas Roehm of Fort Wayne will visit her son, Mr. Roehm, of Willshire a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Luttman of Magley were business callers in the city last evening. , « W. A. Wetter and daughter. Letta, went to Detroit, Mich., for a twd weeks’ visit with Albert Schuler and family. Tbe Misses Mayme and Louise Brake, who have been visiting at Chicago for a week past, returned home yesterday. Trustee A. J. Suman of St. Mary’s township, who was here last evening, lookiag after some business transactions, left for his home. George Geels, from west of the city, was here this morning looking after some business affairs, which required his attention for a short while.

iT'iiir' TTMUT < ->- <■ ■*- ■ «! THE HOME OF ! g I I Quality Groceries I L_—7——J Not Until Our Goods Enter Your Hornes !Do We Relinquish Our Careful Supervision Over Them, IN ORDER THAT THEY Mar Reach You In The Best Condition. We carry a full line—Glass Cans, Tin Cans, Rubbers, Lids, Wax, and Paraffine for canning. Also the guaranteed Pickling Vinegar to can pickles for 20c a Gallon. We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 16 Butter 17 to 22c Hower and Hower. North|of G. R. &•!. Depot. ’Phone 108. , iiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii mi.in * mill'"! —— 808 O ■ O ■ O ■ O 810800808080808080808 o J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Sehirmeyer, Vice Pres, g B O ■ S 2 « £ ■ The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- O o lent bargains in city property and Adams county & ¥ farms. The company would be pleased to have g g you call at its office and see its offerings. The com- j n pany has plenty of five per cent money to loan on ■ m reasonable terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract q Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty g g years experience, complete records. 0 | 2 The Bowers Realty Co. ■ | French Quinn, Secty. O OOOBOBOBOIOBOBdOKOBONOVC 8080 /

11 ■" . i • L Mrs. O. P. Mills and children of Decatur visited Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Hell, of Craigville. 11 —Bluffton Banner. I Andrew Wilson left here this morning on his way to Paulding, where i he will look, after some real estate and I I visit with friends. J A. P .Garrison of Richmond, Ind., | transferred here today on his way to . : Cloverdale, where business interests call him. He will return in a few i days. Work on the new cement walks on ’, the south and west sides of the court 1 house is moving along. The Improve--1 meat will add to the appearance of I the public square. ' Today was the Feast of the As- i ' i sumption of the Blessed Virgin, a holy '' day for the members of the St. Mary’s . i church. Services were held the same I i as on Sunday, being largely attended,! , as usual. Miss Emma Gillig, who has been ■ taking a six weeks’ vacation from j , her work at the Old Adams County ■ bank, has returned home, she enjoy ; I ing one of the most pleasant trips ever taken. I W.MIMIMIM ll||l||l,| I

Joe Miller of Fort Wayne was a busInes caller in the city yesterday. Mrs. Everett will go to Pleasant Mills, where she will spend a fewdays. visiting with friends Mrs. Sarah Brittle, who has been visiting at the John Steger home, left yesterday for Fort Wayne for a visit there. Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Yocum and children, Doris and Doyle, were the guests of U. S. Drummond and family at Pleasant Mills Sunday. Mrs E. C. Amend and Mrs. J. R. Mitchell of Dayton, Ohio, who have ( been making a visit here with relatives, left yesterday for their home. Fred Bell was here last evening enroute home to Hillsdale, Mich., from Bluffton, where he was buying goods ; for his fall trade. Fred is conducting a racket store at Hillsdale and is fair ly making things hum with business. John Willett, state pure food in-; spector, was in the city this morning, making his rounds, examining the various business places which come un I der his jurisdiction in regard to the ! cleanliness and the carrying on of their business. Rev. G. H. Myer and family and Mr j and Mrs. W. J. Myers will arrive home i today from Lake George, where they ’ have.been spending a delightful two I weeks. With them also were Mr. and ; Mrs. Robert Harding of Fort Wayne. I and other members of the family. Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Ritter and son. . Mrs. Emma Zerkel, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Merica and family left this morning j for a week’s trip to the lakes. Messrs. ■ i Merica and Ritter drove through in j their automobile, while the balance j left over the Clover Leaf at 5; 12 a. m. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Yocum and chil-1 i dren. Doris and Doyle,, of Decatur and ! ; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Suman of neat I Pleasant Mills were entertained at 6 ' o'clock dinner Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Drummond at their home in Pleasant Mills. Will Phillips of Lima. Ohio, is in the j city making a week’s visit with his I parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Phillips. Mr. | Phillips, who is working at that place,, i is now enjoying his vacation. Noah Frauhiger of Preble was a | business transactor in the city last evening. Mrs. J. H. Heller and children. Fan--1 ny and Dick, will arrive home this ev- I i ening from a two weeks’ outing at I Clear Lake. Mrs. Schafer and daughter, Gretchen, who have also been ! there, came home Sunday evening, j The only Decatur people at the resort | now are Mi. and Mis. C, J. Lutz. William Jackson is exhibiting some samples of tomatoes raised in his back yard that makes the boys open their eyes. You can see them at this ; office and if you can’t you can get some idea of them from the statement , I that seven of them placed in a row | | make a yard. Dr. Trout, who has one wf the best I fruit and small vegetable farms in I this section of Indiana, has furnished jus a quart of about the best sweet I cider ever tasted. It was made from (choice crab apples and is clean, palati able and delicious. We enjoyed every -swaller” of it. The Great Northern Indiana fair to be held here September 19-22 will exceed in the way of amusement any thing of the kind ever given in Adams county. The advertising campaign with handsome window cards and posters has just begun and will be kept up until the opening day. Tell i yonr friends to come. Harvey DeVinney, here to attend the I funeral services of his father, return- ' ed to Chicago this morning. He came here the first of last week to attend j a birthday party for his father, returning home Thursday, and had scarcely arrived there when notified j of the death of his parent, and he returned immediately. Hanker C. A. Dugan left this morning for Fort Wayne, where he will join Messrs. McCullough and Weatherhogg on a trip to the northern peninsula of Michigan, where they will ■ enjoy the hospitality of the Waring cottage for two or three weeks Mr. Dugan will also stop at Oden for a ; few days’ visit with P. W. Smith and family. Amos Fisher, who last week received the contract for the putting down of a cement sidewalk along the south side of the court house, began work Monday morning with a force of workmen, tearing up the old brick and making ready for the new. With the new piece added to the already long ' ■ strip, it will present a much more attractive appearance around the court house square. That the scales which you see in I almost every depot and public place i are good money-makers is amply proven by the new one which was recently installed in the Clover Leaf depot at this place. On August Ist the new scale arrived and was set up, and last evening, the 14th. it was opened for the first time. In the fourteen days’ operation is earned exactly $4.29 and two slugs. It averaged nearly thirty--1 two cents per day.

David Steele of St. Mary a township was a business visitor here todaj. ? Miss Margaret Moran went to Ge- 3 neva this afternoon for a visit a Ith j friends ; Noah Frauhiger of Preble was nu n-11 be red among the business callers r< « the city today. | Mrs. J. M. Miller returned last even ing from Fort Wayne, where she jj spent a pleasant day with friends. j Bud Summers, who has been here | j for several days on business returned 1 1 this noon to his home at Geneva. - This afternoon S. E. Hite made aI d business trip to Fort Wayne, going by | j automobile. He will return this even ■ J ing. j George Flanders made a business , s trip to Monroe this afternoon looking, I after business for the Confer Ice, S cream plant. | Property in Decatur is moving and J there is scareely a day but that some 5 transfer is announced. It’s a sure J sign of prosperity. £ Tomorrow night the Red Men will j hold an especially important meeting ; at their lodge hall and all members | should be present. ; i Mrs. Fred Falk and two sons return ; ied to Jonesboro, Ark., from an ex- 1 tended visit here with Mr. and Mrs. i John Falk and family. .; If you have anything to sell, adver J tise in the Democrat. The fact will • thus reach fifteen thousand people and I j the results are assured. Mrs. Jennie Fuhrman of Marion, 0., i will arrive today for a two or three ; days’ visit with friends in Decatur, ’ and look after business interests here. 1 A. P. Beatty and family, who have been absent from the city for a num- ' I ber of weeks, touring a number of i states in the west, have returned i, home. Mr. and Mrs. John Everett and . daughter, Miss Ina, and Mr. Calvin 1 Peterson will leave this evening sor 1 a several weeks' visit at points in 'i Kansas. John Joseph, who went to Monroe ; i this noon, where he was looking > after some business matters which required his attention for a short while, ; has returned. I Mrs. W. C. Franke and two sons of 1 Pittsburg, Pa., transferred here today I on their way to Willshire, where they 1 will visit with friends and relatives, -for a week or so. The regular meeting of the city I [ count il will be held this evening at . the council chambers, and the usual line of business will be up for discus- ' sic n. The daughter of F. F. Krick will i ( probably have to undergo an opera- 1 ' , lion for gall stones in the near future. She is ill at the home of her' 1 I father in this city. i The workmen who are digging the . basement for the new Bowers building have about completed their work and soon the building operations will be commenced in earnest and the block , rushed to completion. In the near future B. F. Breiner will leave for Indianapolis, where he will 11 attend the great council of the Red I Men lodge, which will be held there j I next month. Another brother will be ' I I elected to accompany him. Mrs. Grace Alwefn and daughter, h Mary Catherine, have returned from a , visit with C. O. France and family at Columbia City, and will visit relatives i j here for some time before returning | to their home at Shelby. Ohio. George Tu< ker left here this morn- I ing for Pleasant Mills, where he will | visit with W. M. Littles for a few days. | While here he was entertained at the Shafer Peterson home. He was accompanied by his wife and two children. The public sale season is here and this office has already turned out several sets of bills. We are prepared to do the work promptly and the announcement in the paper is worth much to you if you contemplate having a sale. Bloodhounds were secured from ' Lima to assist the workmen on the ruins of the Pennsylvania flyer at Ft. Wayne to locate the men who are bur ied beneath the wreckage, hoping thus to avoid the removal of the entire mass of iron before the bodies can be found. Cal Peterson will leave tonight for Little River, Kans., where he will visit for a few weeks, enjoying the fishing and hunting for which that region is famous. He will be accompanied by several otner Decatur people, among I -whom are Mr. and Mrs. John Everett and daughter, Ina. Tomorrow Frank Peterson of this city, William Knoll of Pleasant Mills, . James Hake of Wren. James Buchananan of Wiltshire. Harry Baker of Berne will make a trip to Huntington . by automobile, where they will partici- ‘ pate in the reunion of the 160th Indi- j ana volunteers. This party were bunkmates in the service and each reunion endeavor to attend in a company. They will return tomorrow night.

I The Items For This Week 1 S OUR BATIEST LA WNS g | g NOW 10c | S Special On Silk Waists For This Week ft $2.79 now $2.00 $3.98 now $3.00 M $4.50 “ $3.69 $5 00 ° $4.00 A For This Week Mens Umbrellas S Mi $1.25 now $ .98c $1.50 now $1.19 S $2.00, $2.25 now $1.39 $2.50. $2.75 “ >x.S9 A $3.00 now $1.98 43.25 now $2.19 $3.50, $3.75 now $2.89 $4 00 “ $2.98 £ B Ladies, Misses and Childrens Colored Parasols for g This Week 20 per cent Off gt A Ladies good Muslin Gown 50c (j S’ We have a few Ladies White dresses to close fl at 1-2 off fl K Ladies, Misses Gingham dresses Lawn dresses h 8 Sorsitt dresses this special 1-4 off S ft Wash Skirts at 98c 5 Pongee Long Coats, Special $3.69 fi S Wash Suits White, Tan, Blue $2.98 fl For This Week at fl I TRUE & RUNYON | S Decatur Indiana “2 S ■

\ X \ 172-acre Trumbull county, Ohio, farm, >BSOO. Good buildings. 80 acres, |28OO; house, 7 rooms; barn 30x40. 4.7 acres, fair house and barn, $2400; soil dark, sandy clay loam. Youngstown is one of the best markets in Ohio.—L. Abell, Cortland, Ohio, R. D. No. 1. o FOR SALE—Eight head of good breeding ewes. See Noah Frauhiger, Preble, Ind. 192t3 M T. H. SOLDNER ■ Dentist ■ • ■ Speaks German and ■ W English ■ ■ Over Vance, Hite and Jj g Macklin’s Clothing l| ■ STORE. » S Decatur, . . - - Indiana 9 g—■■■■■■■■■■■■ 40th Annual BIG FAIR Portland, Ind. AUG 28, 29, 30,331, SEPT. I $3,300 Purse or Races THE WEBER FAMILY FAMOUS ACROBATS, PATRICK & FRANCISCO Comedy Hay Rack Rubes Whirlwind Carnival Os Fun BASIL LA MARVO America’s Aerial Prince Grand Stock Parade and Motorcycle Races only on WEDNESDAY Many grand special featurers General Admission as Usual 250. J.F. GRAVES, Secretary

IOST —Locket from watch fob, somewhere in the city. Return to this office. 188 t" FOR SALE—Durham bull and fresn eow. Inquire George Zimmerman. R. R. No. 9. 190t6 _ ■ ———. •

rf 3 Qi — yQI 3 Etl jjj ' Six Beautiful Lots For Sale H o=o o=4 I The old Niblick homestead on north I second and third streets, will be divided , I and sold at the right prices, in city lots ( q 66x132. Your chance if you contemp- g I O late building. You know all about this C property. Get busy and buy before sonfe* I one else beats you to it. If interested, I U SEE FO 01=1 JOHN NIBLICK, EXECUTOR « H At NIBLICK & Co. STORE L's I=3 ■ ftl^l— —IQgjl ■BBBBB B B B 888888 888888 B B H 888888 FARMS FOR SALE OR TRADE ® &■ 4* acres mil sell or trade for smaller farm, ” 65 wsth best of location for sale, S> ™ 84 •* g*o<l .«B and location, M ■ 114 " improved land can sell for SBO.OO per aero ® b ; S MW “ nriarjy all black land will trade for smaller farm, “ 95 “ peo<l producer all under cultivation, H 5 These are .only a few of our many fams listed; also have a nice list ® F«f Oty See us for North Weatemjand Michigan lands be- ■ > E -lEKS& from M ” “ : ’ how ’»■» »' «• ■ “ FRUCHTEand LITTERER Attorneys ® ■HMMIIIIUItIJIIIIMIHHBH 1 : * ♦ ♦ ♦ nil .~ :> J. D. HALE i; SEEDS, COAL AND FEED: ;: Portland Cement, Gypsum Rock Wall I | Plaster, Lime and Salt ; ’ | We make a specialty of furnishing Seed Goods good i i X in low in price. ; - , X Call, Write or Phone No. 8. 201 S. 2nd. St ;; 1 44 » ♦ tttliniii I

GIRL WANTED—General house work, at once. Only two in family. Inquire J. H. Stone. 189t2 WANTED —A six or seven room house with bath. Cottage preferred. See A. A. Gottemoller; 'phone 212. 187t6